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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, The Voortrekkers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Voortrekkers face the twelve thousand Zulus in battle at Blood River in 1838?
(a) One thousand.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Four hundred and sixty.
(d) Twenty thousand.

2. Who attacks the Voortrekker wagons and kills the Lukas De Groot camp?
(a) Nxumalo.
(b) Mziikazi and his Matabele warriors.
(c) The San people.
(d) The Bantus.

3. What is Prince Henry of Portugal's nickname?
(a) The Conqueror.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) The Dark Lion.
(d) The Prince of Africa.

4. What does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to return to France and secretly bring back to him?
(a) Love letters from a French countess.
(b) A political document involving the French king.
(c) A stolen ruby.
(d) Cuttings from five hundred French grape vines.

5. What does Nxumalo's father Ndela do to arouse the suspicion of the tribe's diviner?
(a) He draws in the dirt with a sharply pointed stick.
(b) He hums to himself.
(c) He flirts with the diviner's daughter.
(d) He whistles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Van Doorn first becomes a Trekboer?

2. Why do Seena Van Doorn and her daughter-in-law come into conflict?

3. Who does Lodevicus Van Doorn marry after his first wife is killed?

4. Who inherits the Van Doorn's South African estate after Paul de Prè's death?

5. Who inadvertently starts a war with the Xhosa tribe in Chapter Five by moving to land he doesn't realize has been allotted to the Xhosa by the governor?

(see the answer key)

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